The problem was never
communication
so much as
revelation. Now,
after eons
worth of bait-
and-switched
promise
and desertion,
every last
gesture on Earth
has been inverted—
instead of classic
dramedies, starring
Tin Pan Alley carnage,
complicity
is subversive,
and feeling self-
righteous, a decisive
plan of action.
And to think—
only yesterday,
all of humanity
(or so say the glyphs
in an old book that's
tough to translate)
once was roundly
punished
for speaking
one language.
